Wild cucumber
Echinocystis lobata (Michx.) Torr. & A.Gray
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- —
Cucurbitaceae
Formerly Echinocystis echinata, Hexameria echinata, Micrampelis lobata, Momordica echinata, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Climbing annualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canada to WC. & E. U.S.A.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 8.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Czech
- štětinec laločnatý
- German
- Gelappte Stachelgurke
- Russian
- колючепло́дник ло́пастный
- Chinese
- 刺囊瓜
- Slovenian
- oljna bučka
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Echinocystis lobata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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